cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 18 00:04:57 PDT 2003


In message <20030417223819.GA34467 at dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:

>Wrong.  It is unclear what "supported" means here.  It worked in some
>contexts, but not all.  Namely you could not boot a disklabeled disk.
>disklabel worked fine for non bootable disks.

We are not in the business of inventing new meta-data formats for disk
slicing.  Therefore we don't _want_ to support big-endian bsdlabels
on Sun hardware, we want to use sunlabels.

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